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In earlier papers we showed unpredictability beyond quantum uncertainty in atomic clocks, ensuing from a proven gap between given evidence and explanations of that evidence. Here we reconceive a clock, not as an isolated entity, but as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-17 F. Hadi Madjid , John M. Myers

Graph convolutional networks and their variants have shown significant promise in 3D human pose estimation. Despite their success, most of these methods only consider spatial correlations between body joints and do not take into account…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Tanvir Hassan , A. Ben Hamza

Ultra-wideband (UWB) based positioning with fewer anchors has attracted significant research interest in recent years, especially under energy-constrained conditions. However, most existing methods rely on discrete-time representations and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jian Sun , Wei Sun , Genwei Zhang , Kailun Yang , Song Li , Xiangqi Meng , Na Deng , Chongbin Tan

Multi-node optical clock networks will enable future studies of fundamental physics and enable applications in quantum and classical communications as well as navigation and geodesy. We implement the first ever multi-node optical clock…

Graph rigidity theory is an important tool for examining the solvability of sensor network localization (SNL) problems, and ensuring global convergence of localization algorithms. Along this direction, diverse measurements such as signed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Yongjie Liu , Gangshan Jing , Long Wang

We consider the External Clock Synchronization problem in dynamic sensor networks. Initially, sensors obtain inaccurate estimations of an external time reference and subsequently collaborate in order to synchronize their internal clocks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Ofer Feinerman , Amos Korman

An unknown-position sensor can be localized if there are three or more anchors making time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements of a signal from it. However, the location errors can be very large due to the fact that some of the measurements are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hongyang Chen , Kenneth W. K. Lui , Zizhuo Wang , H. C. So , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper we have proposed clock error mitigation from the measurements in the scheduled based self localization system. We propose measurement model with clock errors while following a scheduled transmission among anchor nodes.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Baptiste Cavarec , Satyam Dwivedi , Mats Bengtsson , Peter Händel

While UWB-based methods can achieve high localization accuracy in small-scale areas, their accuracy and reliability are significantly challenged in large-scale environments. In this paper, we propose a learning-based framework named ULOC…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Thien-Minh Nguyen , Yizhuo Yang , Tien-Dat Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

A robust and accurate positioning solution is required to increase the safety in GPS-denied environments. Although there is a lot of available research in this area, little has been done for confined environments such as tunnels. Therefore,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Vladimir Savic , Javier Ferrer-Coll , Per Angskog , Jose Chilo , Peter Stenumgaard , Erik G. Larsson

While a natural fit for modeling and understanding mobile networks, time-varying graphs remain poorly understood. Indeed, many of the usual concepts of static graphs have no obvious counterpart in time-varying ones. In this paper, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-01 John Whitbeck , Marcelo Dias de Amorim , Vania Conan , Jean-Loup Guillaume

Ultra-Wideband (UWB) systems are becoming increasingly popular for indoor localization, where range measurements are obtained by measuring the time-of-flight of radio signals. However, the range measurements typically suffer from a…

Temporal networks representing a stream of timestamped edges are seemingly ubiquitous in the real-world. However, the massive size and continuous nature of these networks make them fundamentally challenging to analyze and leverage for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Nesreen K. Ahmed , Nick Duffield , Ryan A. Rossi

This letter presents a cooperative relative multi-robot localization design and experimental study. We propose a flexible Monte Carlo approach leveraging a particle filter to estimate relative states. The estimation can be based on…

Although neural networks are capable of reaching astonishing performances on a wide variety of contexts, properly training networks on complicated tasks requires expertise and can be expensive from a computational perspective. In industrial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-11 Théo Lacombe , Yuichi Ike , Mathieu Carriere , Frédéric Chazal , Marc Glisse , Yuhei Umeda

This article studies the problem of distributed formation control for multiple robots by using onboard ultra wide band (UWB) distance and inertial odometer (IO) measurements. Although this problem has been widely studied, a fundamental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Kunrui Ze , Wei Wang , Shuoyu Yue , Guibin Sun , Kexin Liu , Jinhu Lü

Clock synchronization and ranging over a wireless network with low communication overhead is a challenging goal with tremendous impact. In this paper, we study the use of time-to-digital converters in wireless sensors, which provides clock…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Pol del Aguila Pla , Lissy Pellaco , Satyam Dwivedi , Peter Händel , Joakim Jaldén

In this paper some new experimental results about the statistical characterization of the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) bias affecting time-of-arrival (TOA) estimation in ultrawideband (UWB) wireless localization systems are illustrated. Then,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-14 Francesco Montorsi , Fabrizio Pancaldi , Giorgio M. Vitetta

Optical atomic clocks are our most precise tools to measure time and frequency. They enable precision frequency comparisons between atoms in separate locations to probe the space-time variation of fundamental constants, the properties of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 B. C. Nichol , R. Srinivas , D. P. Nadlinger , P. Drmota , D. Main , G. Araneda , C. J. Ballance , D. M. Lucas

Distributed wireless clock synchronization is essential for aligning the clocks of distributed transceivers in support of joint transmission and reception techniques. One recently explored method involves synchronizing distributed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Kumar Sai Bondada , Hiten Kothari , Yibin Liang , Daniel J. Jakubisin , R. Michael Buehrer